Currently the university has 9
major disciplines, namely, sciences, engineering, medicine, humanities, law,
philosophy, economics, management and education. Under this broad category
there are three state key disciplines--architecture, civil engineering, and
traffic and transportation engineering; seven state key sub-disciplines--marine
geology, engineering mechanics, machine designing and its theory, material
science, control theory and control engineering, geodesy and geodetic
engineering, environmental engineering; three state key sub-disciplines being
developed--fundamental mathematics, condensed matter physics; and ten Shanghai
municipal key disciplines --- architectural designing and its theory, history and
theory of architecture, control theory and control engineering, solid
mechanics, management science and engineering, traffic engineering, disaster
prevention and reduction engineering, geological engineering, internal medicine
and foreign philosophy.